Apollo is the god of light, music, prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery, poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry, and the carer of herds and flocks. He is the god of light because it was said that he had no darkness inside of him. Also, he was referred to as Phoebus who is the god of the light of the sun.
The Olympic and Delphi games were dedicated to Apollo since he was the son of Zeus. They were also dedicated to him because he won the only event that were in them. The only event was called the Stade race.
Apollo's symbols were the sun and lyre because he had pulled his golden chariot across the sky which is why the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west. The lyre was his symbol because Hermes had stolen Apollo's cattle and Hermes created the first lyre and Apollo heard it and said Hermes can keep the cattle if Apollo could have the lyre.
Since Apollo is the son of Zeus, Apollo was considered to be supreme.
Apollo was worshiped as a "Mouse Daemon" in Ancient Troy and the Greek Islands because when he was angry he had brought the invasion of mice, transmitting a plague to the place and when he had a good mood the mice would disappear.
A song sung in honor of Apollo is called a Paean.
Apollo was born on the island of Delos. After Apollo was born, the island of Delos had became sacred, but now nothing is there because all the temples of Apollo had been ruined.
Apollo was the one to kill Achilles disguised as Paris when he went to kill Achilles and many people thought that Apollo was really Paris.
Apollo was also considered the god who affords help and wards off evil, as he was having the ability of visiting men with plagues and epidemics, so he was able to deliver men from them, if duly propitiated, or at least by his oracles to suggest the means by such calamities could be averted.
Apollo is the god who punishes and destroys the wicked and overbearing, and such as he is described as the god with bow and arrows, the of Hephaestus, the god who with his darts hits his object at a distance and never misses it. All sudden deaths of men, whether they were regarded as a punishment or a reward, were believed to be the effect of the arrows of Apollo: and the same arrows he sent the plague into the camp of the Greeks.
This is Apollo. He has a mini harp
in his hand because he is the god
of music.
I have put this bow and arrow because Apollo is also the god of archery.
I put this light because it has to do with Apollo also being the god of light.
This is Apollo. He has a mini harp
in his hand because he is the god
of music.
I put this light because it has to do with Apollo also being the god of light.
Apollo's Dramatic Writing
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